Harry Chappas

you know what is f***ed up.......when talking about blockbuster deals, Alphonso Soriano is the ceiling......yikes

When comparing the steller careers of Pods and Pierre please remember that Pods was out of baseball last May. They are not on equal footing whatsoever so I wish people would end this comparison.

Also KW is getting athletic versatile guys that have hit MLB pitching. While these moves are not sexy they give stability. Everyone he has picked up adds value something more than a couple of guys could not do last year that were on the roster.

QUOTE (fathom @ Dec 15, 2009 -> 12:12 PM) I really hope it's Jordan Danks, but I could live with using Flowers as a main trade piece. The OF is set for the next two years I think and there is no space this year with Kotsay and Jones. I think against some RHP you will see Kotsay lead-off and Pierre bat 9th.

Maybe the guy from Colorado whose name I can not spell properly. The Dodgers probably have a list of five or six guys to choose from.

Last winter Milton Bradley was sold to cub fans as a winner and the guy that was going to show the clubhouse how to win yet Milton had never won anything.....how'd that turn out. Last year the White Sox showed little resolve in September and a stretch run that looked like a lost ship trying to find direction. In the last six months captain Stubing (Ozzie Guillen) may have gotten the rutter he needed in the form of an ace and some some players that seem to know how to win and may be able to reinforce the winning mentality that seemed to be lacking with the the 2009 White Sox. The American League Central division is very winnable right now if this team does what it is capable of doing. The Vizqual, Jones, Kotsay, Peavy and Pierre's of the game may not be the Michael Jordan winners but they all have won and all seem to want to win. These are the guys that should help Guillen do his job which is get his team relaxed and ready to go and push the Ramirez and Rios' to do their job and assist AJ and Konerko in leading this team. In my mind the sum of the parts equals a whole that looks really good right now....kind of like.......I don't know.....the last six months of 2004....... Time to go find the Timo Perez bobblehead and get the Journey albums out?........maybe The starting pitching always would determine if this team wins or not the hitters simply need not go into a late 2009 Jermaine Dye slump and the future looks bright. The big bat that everyone seems to be yearnign for doesn't mean anything if the starting five do not stay healthy or underperform. There is no insulating the team from this unless you have $200M to spend which all but one team do not.

People need to stop worrying about the payroll. This is the old $0.50 argument yet he seems to always find the smart money when it is needed. He will play poor to get cash with players and then add the prospect wheather it is Ryan Rupe, Royce Ring or Ryan Meaux to give the team giving the cash something to hope for. Jenks will not be a salary dump. This trade came about because the Dodgers could not get a better offer and KW most likely forced their hand. I think Vlad Guerrero comes here to DH. The bench is looking pretty loaded now if there is a backup catcher signed. If it is Buck, won't the Sox then have two of the three pieces that KC got for Beltran?

Look the Sox neeeded a better option. Is he ideal.....no, but they are not going to put all-stars at every position. He is a smarter base runner than Pods as Pods was a very dumb player. He also is probably very similar to Pods defensively. I will continue to state that the White Sox are loading up on guys that can hit MLB pitching and should help score more than last year and will be successful against the soft tossers that give them fits. Another leftie moves bode well for success against the Blackburn/Baker/John Bale's of the division. This also means Matsui is going to the Angels in my mind.

In the NL Central with Wainwright and Carpenter though that should lock it up for a couple of years if LaRussa and Duncan hang around. Wow is money flowing in odd places this year. The collusion scare must've gotten to a couple of owners.

The only thing that makes sense is if the Phils lock up Halladay and Lee only wants to test the market. The Phils should not have to give up too much here to think that they are giving up a big time prospect is insane. Halladay is more of an injury risk, not a large one but a risk none the less, but he is a horse.

As Ed O'Bradavich said Greg Olson is the first player to actually play smaller and slower than they really are. The Aroma thing that made Lovie look bad was that they saw all of this in practice?????? Huh....why is he behind Bennet and Hester than? I think the coaching staff continues to show that they are unable to get players to progerss as they mature and make sound decisions about both personnel and game managment. That last series was an embarassment. What does Pep Hamilton do?

QUOTE (daa84 @ Dec 13, 2009 -> 12:56 PM) ogunleye and hillenmeyer were held on that play....holding is just such a bipolar call in the nfl cuz you really can call it on every play...but the call on omiyale was less obvious to me than on that run..... now the blatant missed pass interference right there is troubling ..... The thing is Lovie does not take issue with this and it seems to happen at least once a game. At some point I think Cutler is going to lose it as he is the only guy with Tillman to appear to give a s***

Wasn't that Aromashadu Not sure what Cutler was doing there How is that not holding on the Rogers 1st down run. Mike Cary having a bad day.

Here is another reason why Lovie Smith is a bad coach. A real team accepts that penalty for illegal formation moves the team to the 30 makes stops on 2nd and 16 and 3rd and 16 and force a longer field goal. The Bears decline the penalty and then proceeed to give up a 12 yard gain. Packers were robbed on the TD. and the Cutler Int Fun bad.

Teams are gearing up to play the Hawks and the Hawks need to adjust

That Lovie calling the defense............how is that working. That and the inability to run on 3rd and 2. Looks like this is going to be ugly. Wow Bullocks should never see the field again. and the false start on the O-line all this and only 4 minutes in.

Notice Linebrink was not mentioned by KW. I think he is being moved for another bad contract (Bradley, Pierre) and KW is getting the ducks in a row for this based on the non-tender guys. If Jenks is non-tendered this team has serious issues.

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 11, 2009 -> 08:29 AM) Do you think that they cared about the Central Michigan players' feelings when Kelly left CMU to coach Cincy? I would think the pissed part is leaving your team while the season is still going on and playing for an undeated season in the Sugar Bowl.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 11, 2009 -> 08:11 AM) This. He hasn't hurt himself in the field. He has hurt himself on freak things. Taking him out of the field wouldn't change that. Freaky injurires happen to injury prone players. 1 or 2 injuries I can see but when it is 4 and 5 you become a Jim McMahon type of guy.

So Nolan Ryan wants a 4 man rotation and his guys to go deep into games.........Ya, Harden fits this mold really well.

Tiger Woods is somehow involved.

I'll take Coco's iffy shoulders over prancers iffy hamstrings.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Dec 9, 2009 -> 10:40 AM) Yeah well it would be a hell of a lot better than Wrigley. And WINNING would go a long way to make the Cell more comfortable - and I hope that we win. Milton probably feels like he has something to prove and would love to be a big contributor to the White Sox while spending the Cubs money. Baseballwise Milton Bradley did exactly what he always does on the field last year, get on base. The cubs paid and sold him to the minion as an RBI machine and right fielder and then the press ran with this and it was all Milt's fault when he did not do what the cubs told their fans he would do. The cubs should not have signed him and they should not have promoted him as being something he is not. He was behind, Soto, Fonzi, Zambrano and Dempster in the underperforming department yet he was the guy getting boo'd the most and in my mind was a nice scapegoat. Remeber when he was going to bring the fire, passion and winnign attitude with him........huh, he has never won yet the minion bought the winner tag. His personality is a risk but he is much better lead-off option than Swisher ever was. I am not advocating Bradley at $10M a year but if the lead-off options are all meh, then I think this option needs to be looked at more than just saying no. Some times riskier players need to be investigated and I think the due diligence needs to be done here.

Milt hates the cubs, I hate the cubs......... Milt has issues but it has never involved anything illegal as far as I recall. He seems to have a demeanor away from the park that differs greatly from his baseball persona although I could be wrong. His OBP is as sexy as it gets and he can not drive in runs. Bat him leadoff and play a little left here or there. Players seem to like it on the southside and while we hear that it is great to play at Wrigley I am not inclined to believe that is true unless the price is right. Send AJ, Guillen, Reinsdorf and Williams to meet with him and go from there. Give them Carlos Torres. As was pointed out earlier, Jurassic had milder issues but he seemd to adapt to the Cell quite well.

In a macro sense the White Sox are adding old players. In a micro sense they are adding guys that have good MLB history and should be able to handle the type of pitchers that hurt the Sox, s*** righties. Who can hit s*** righties, good left handed hitters (Matsui, Teahan, Vizquel, and Kotsay). Thease are the guys that should bode well against the Twins, Indians and Royals rotations. Are these moves sexy....no but the AL Central is terrible and off of the top of my head there is not a good leftie in the divison.....Laffey maybe? The White Sox really do not need to make big expensive moves to win this division all they need to do is stay healthy and do their job. The rotation can win the world series if they get to the playoffs and that is how this team is being constructed.